The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-10-13

was said TO be al right, but the fOunda-
ton was no good. Do you think a
woman would pay as much for top,
and get no bottOmY If women let a
ing around all the time to see what was
going on. 1 once asked contractor
why he did not like to work for women.
He said that a woman tagged around
and looked too much. The Govern
ment needs women to tag around and
look up the Government contracts.
We want WOman'S economical ideas in
the management Of affairs at Wash
ington. Women are more peaceable;
she has to, and fight in good earnest,
too, when she does. When she fights
she maks q business OF it. The glory
of womanhOod is so few do fight.
During the late war the women
did their part. They had their place
to fill. When my father went to the
war with my two brothers they left me
at home. My father told me TO be the
man. 1 plOwed and hoed corn, made
men and let them go to the war, and
still, / was no good. 1 did only what
thousands OF loyal women did. We
have right to vote and say If there
shall be war to which our loved ones
go. We share the suffering in many
ways. Many a woman is living to-day
who buried her heart in the grave of a
loved son. She lives in sorrow ever
since the great battle in which he was
slain. We are ready to work for our
country. What has our country done
for us? When they captured a man
who had led the secession,
some said hang him. Some
said Danish him. No, that was not
bad enough punishment for him. He
was DISTINGUISHED. That was the
worst punishment he could have. jeff
Davis was given to the women. That
is what we got for our services for our
country. Women are more religious
than men. Some preachers do not
favor woman's rights. If it were not
for women how would they get their
payp If it were not for women how
large an attendABce would they have
to hear them preach? We want an in
fusion of the golden rule in politics.
In order to get it we must have the
ballot. Senator Ingalls, says law max
ers must be obeyors of the law. That
In Massachusetts there is law that
no woman should be on the streets
after II O'Clock at night. If they
were they were arrested and sent to
prison. We thought what was good
for woman was good for man. So we
asked the Legislature to change the
word woman" to ''persan." We
were allowed to withdraw the petition.
We tried again and again, and finally
we succeeded. The law was passed.
A policeman found a man out and took
him to jail. He was tried and fined.
The papers all over the state made
SO much sport of the occurrence, that
never since has a man been arrested for
the offense. The men never stay out
so late now. From 100 to 200 women
are arrested and sent to jail every
week for violating this law. l would
think it would be lonesome for women
to be out 80 late all alone. These. the
men say, are the weak places in our
Government, and as woman is the
stronger on all these points, we ask
for suffrage. The members of our
Legislature enact laws to protect the
fish, Holsters, birds and everything else.
They fail on a law to protect our chill
dren. They do not know how to frame
such laws. 1t requires the woman, the
mother, to make these laws. That is
why we ask suffrage, so as to protect
the boys and girls. Woman must have
the ballot to enable her to look out for
home and childeen.
Mrs. Fox and Prof. Kelly then sang a
duet after which Mrs. Johns called on
COOAN Ds AN
She read several extracts from SEN
ator Ingalls, article. She said: 1--WE
claim women would make good judges.
In Wyoming Territory "a woman served
a term as judge. Not one of her de-
cisions was reversed by the Supreme
Court. We claim that women would
make good jurors. OF all the places
women claim woman would be sue
cess, it is in the jury box: The laws
will never be enforced till women sit
in the jury box. She cited an instance
in Sioux City, Ia, where women acted
right and men acted wrong. In Chi
cago and several other cities women
were appointed as police matrons, and
it has proved successful. don't know
where Senator Ingalls, has been that he
is not better posted. He has neither
eyes to see nor ears to hear. In
soldiers, like everything else,
you want an inside as
well as an outside partner. In the late
lots of the outside work. Woman did
as she always does-her duty. Men
were paid; women were not. When
women get the ballot they will not
work for nothing. If a woman had
written Senator Ingalls, article, she
would not have been thought worthy
to hold high position in the country.
They would have said she lacked
brains. Women believe in deciding by
opinion, instead of fighting. Senator
Ingalls, says woman suffrage would
alter the representation. Does not the
Senator know that women have
always been counted in the representa-
tionY He ought to know that it will
make no difference. When the Six
teenth Amendment is passed,
not a member will be ad-
ded on that score. Only the increase
in population will make any change in
that. He says each state has the power
to enfranchise women. We know it Is
not Congress. If he had been III any
meeting of the committees of Congress,
to which our bills have been referred,
he would know why we go to Congress.
1t is because we want it made possible
that the State Legislatures. instead of
the electors, be empowered to give
women equal suffrage. We do not
want the question to go to the electors
to be voted on. He rates US with
ignorant foreigners. He told me
several years ago he was sorry the
negro had been given suffrage. he
said he thought it was a mistake,
but he did not want TO say so
Who thinks women are as ignorant las
the negro was at the end of the war;
The negro now is much superior pOliti-
cally speaking but IN no other sense is
he her equal. Married women owe
their services to their husbands. AL
the money she has is what he wishes to
give her. Women are not as well of
as the old slaves. The masters were
compelled to provide for the slaves,
many husbands do not do as much foI
their wives. To show how much a
woman has / will cite an instance. A
woman fell through a sidewalk, she
could not sue for damages, her husband
sued for damages and got S13 600. The
woman did not get the money, all shC
got is what her husband gave
her for necessities. Another
woman had a dentist make
her a set of teeth. They were M
good. The husband would not pay
for them. The dentist sued the man
The woman, poor creature, was no
even allowed to give her testimony il
court. Under the fourteenth amend
ment woman is entitled to vote. /
says all persons, and as we thought w
were persons, we went to Washington
!, to press our claim. We were re
jected. They said the men VIII